Hundreds of thousands of people may have had their credit card data hacked into after buying Arby’s fast food.
The restaurant found that its computer systems and tills in some US stores were breached by malware, that allows attackers to remotely steal data from each credit card as it is swiped at the cash register.
The fast food chain has since urged customers to report any ‘unauthorized charges’ on their cards to their banks.
Security researcher and writer Brian Krebs, one of the first to detect the hack, said the breach occurred between October 25, 2016 and January 15, 2017 and could have resulted in data from over 355,000 credit and debit cards being extracted.
Arby’s has more than 3,330 stores in the United States, and roughly one-third of those are corporate-owned. The remaining stores are franchises. According to the news, only company stores are affected, not Franchise stores.
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